waynev, if you installed the package with installpkg you are done, the packages are installed. EXCLUDED in gslapt means gslapt is not able to manage the package by itself. The kernel packages are excluded from gslapt because there is some risk involved and is preferable you installing them manually.If you want to be sure, check /usr/src, should be a dir named linux-2.6.22.14 (or similar with the sources inside.

HTH. Rodrigo.

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waynev, if you installed the package with installpkg you are done, the packages are installed. EXCLUDED in gslapt means gslapt is not able to manage the package by itself. The kernel packages are excluded from gslapt because there is some risk involved and is preferable you installing them manually.If you want to be sure, check /usr/src, should be a dir named linux-2.6.22.14 (or similar with the sources inside.

HTH. Rodrigo.

Thank you Rodrigo. I modified my post before I read your post. Again thank you for your welcomed direction. I checked /usr/src and yes there is a package named linux-2.6.22.14. I believe I'm beginning to understand the process. Using terminal # slapt-get --install kernel-headers the kernel-headers seem to be installed:)

However: I'm attemting to install a SourceForce Pkg libUSB. At first, I believed the reason the executables could not be created was because the kernel-headers were not present. Apparently, this is not the cause. As far as I can tell all the necessary C LIb are installed. I'm stumped.

The package I'm attempting to install is a package from SourceForge (libusb). The aim of the LIBUSB project.is to create a library for use by user level applications to access USB devices regardless of OS. libusb is an open source project licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1.

---snip---The package I'm attempting to install is a package from SourceForge (libusb). The aim of the LIBUSB project.is to create a library for use by user level applications to access USB devices regardless of OS. libusb is an open source project licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1.

My hope! is this package will allow me to use the scanner part of the hp 1400 series printer All-in-One now printing via cups. I've had no luck in with various other methods.

---snip---

libusb should be part of VL by default, so you don't need to build it. You will, however, need to ensure that recent versions of the hplip and sane packages are installed on your computer. This is because the hplip package provides the scanner driver that the sane package uses to do the grunt work of scanning. Both of these packages are in our repository in case they are not on your box. The quick way to check whether hplip is installed is to do the following:

1) Open a terminal and type su at the prompt. Enter the root account password when prompted.2) Type hp-setup & at the prompt. If hplip is installed, you should see a dialog box on the screen. Close it out.

Assuming that both sane and hplip are installed on your box, I'd like you to open a terminal and do the following steps with your multi-function device connected to your box:

1) Type sane-find-scanner at the prompt. Post the output of the command in reply to this post. If the sane-find-scanner command works, you'll see something like this:

# sane-find-scanner will now attempt to detect your scanner. If the # result is different from what you expected, first make sure your # scanner is powered up and properly connected to your computer.

# No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure that # you have loaded a kernel SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter.

---->found USB scanner (vendor=0x055f, product=0x0006, chip=MA-1017) at libusb:4:13<---- # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported by # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage.

# Not checking for parallel port scanners.

# Most Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary ports # can't be detected by this program.

# You may want to run this program as root to find all devices. Once you # found the scanner devices, be sure to adjust access permissions as # necessary.

The key line is the one that has an arrow pointing to it above.

2) Type scanimage -L at the prompt and post the output from that command here. If the scanimage -L command works, you should see something like this:

# sane-find-scanner will now attempt to detect your scanner. If the # result is different from what you expected, first make sure your # scanner is powered up and properly connected to your computer.

# No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure that # you have loaded a kernel SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter.

found USB scanner (vendor=0x03f0 [HP], product=0x4d11 [PSC 1400 series]) at libusb:1:2 # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported by # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage.

# Not checking for parallel port scanners.

# Most Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary ports # can't be detected by this program.

compaq://home/wayneroot:# scanimage -L

No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different,check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by thesane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentationwhich came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages).

Copyright (c) 2001-7 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LPThis software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute itunder certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.

# sane-find-scanner will now attempt to detect your scanner. If the # result is different from what you expected, first make sure your # scanner is powered up and properly connected to your computer.

# No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure that # you have loaded a kernel SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter.

found USB scanner (vendor=0x03f0 [HP], product=0x4d11 [PSC 1400 series]) at libusb:1:2 # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported by # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage.

# Not checking for parallel port scanners.

# Most Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary ports # can't be detected by this program.

compaq://home/wayneroot:# scanimage -L

No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different,check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by thesane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentationwhich came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages).

Copyright (c) 2001-7 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LPThis software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute itunder certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.

Sorry for the delay getting back to this. From what you've posted, it seems that the hplip package is installed. Also, sane knows that an HP scanner is there. However, the scanning won't work, because sane doesn't know which backend to use. It should use the hpaio backend. Let's see if this fix will work for you:

1) Open a terminal and become root via the su command.2) Type cd /etc/sane.d at the prompt. If you get an error message saying that there is no sane.d directory, then type mkdir -p /etc/sane.d at the prompt, then go into it.3) Once you are in /etc/sane.d type ls at the prompt. You should see a file named dll.conf. If that file is present, type the following at the prompt: